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Ph.D.

[ pee-eych-dee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

abbreviation for

, plural Ph.D.s

the highest degree, a doctorate, awarded by a graduate school in a field of academic study, usually to a person who has completed at least three years of graduate study and a dissertation approved by a committee of professors.
a person who has been awarded this degree.

Origin of Ph.D.¹

First recorded in 1870–75; from Latin Philosophiae Doctor

In 1950, Serna earned his Ph.D. from the University of Havana, where he had befriended a classmate named Fidel Castro.

He eventually earned a Ph.D. in psychology and worked in various universities, though never for very long.

Borlaug studied forestry, and then obtained a Ph.D. in plant pathology.

Tuchman, of course, never earned a Ph.D.; nor was she ever affiliated with a university history department.

She never earned a Ph.D. or taught in a university history department.

He was educated at Gttingen, where he obtained the degree of Ph.D.

For this and his other graduate work his university later conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D.

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